Re-air of yesterdays UM vs. msu basketball game @ 5:30 on BTN

Submitted by Eastside Maize on

Yesterdays game will be re-aired today at 5:30 on BTN. It is a Big Ten Classic.

The game that comes to my mind when I hear Big Ten Classic is from the 88-89 season. Illinois had beaten us twice that year, including a trouncing on our Senior Day. We met again in the Final Four and Sean Higgins put back gave us a 83-81 victory.

What game comes to your mind when you hear Big Ten Classic?

LSAClassOf2000

February 24th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^

The Michigan-Illinois game in the Final Four was pretty epic too, and awesome since I believe they beat us in both regular season meetings. The last ten minutes or so of the game that sent us to play Seton Hall saw the lead change hands a couple times (over 30 times throughout the game actually) but it never grew beyond four points for either team, at least not in those final minutes. For what seemed like a year, that was a nailbiter and some excellent basketball. 

goblue16

February 24th, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^

Why can't BTN play those classics again?? I really would love to re watch games during the Amaker years all the games against nd and the Purdue last second win or the MSU wins, fab five games and the Taylor and traylor teams, Jamal Crawford games...

WolverineHistorian

February 24th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^

ESPN Classic used to show those games back in the day.  (They also showed every single heartbreaking football loss in the last 30 years).  But I remember watching the final four game against Illinois on Classic, as well as the title game against Seton Hall. 

And while Jamal Crawford was great, you don't really want to see many games from his playing days.  His one year with us was the first year of the program's futile run to hell.  

gustave ferbert

February 24th, 2014 at 6:36 PM ^

the refs always seem to call a block. . . . you might as well, either 1) hack the crap out of the them (prevent the 3 point play) or 2) just let them blow through. . . I've kind of felt that way since the Beautiful Burke Block of 2013

Bando Calrissian

February 24th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^

When I think Big Ten classic, if we're merely restricting it to conference wins, I'm going with the win over Michigan State in 2006 or either of the Illinois games in '89.

Expand it to non-conference games, the Duke win in '97. Easily..